Answer:
Unemployment is due to larger societal failings, not personal failings.
Explanation:
The silk road spread from the Roman empire all the way to China for trade so it helped with expansion
The answer is B.
The Articles of Confederation was extremely weak due to its lack of federal power, it gave most of the authority to the states. This is discussed in the passage as it talks about how the federal/national government had no authority to raise money, etc. Thus, the answer is B, as the answer says the national government had a lack of authority to control the debt crisis.
Nation's credit. Fiat currency is a currency like the Dollar or Pound, where a government says it has value, it's not something that does actually have value like gold or silver. The value is determined based on the nation's credit.